The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGayaTPQ4I 
(Capo 1 for original)

(Intro):    (Play notes):  
d,  a,  c#,  g#,    (x2)  

(Verse 1)
           
Hello darkness

           
  my old frien

              
d, I've come t

          
o talk with yo

      
u a-gain,  
           
Because a visi

            
on softly - y 

             
creeping, left

            
 it’s seeds wh

            
ile I wa - as 

         
slee - ping,  
            
And the vision

           
, that was pla

          
nted,  in my  

           
brain, still  

         
rem - ains, 
           
Within the sou

           
nd, of  sil - 

              
ence.  

(Verse 2)  
             
In restless dr

            
eams I walked 

             
alone, narrow 

          
streets of cob

      
ble-stone,  
           
'Neath the hal

            
o of  a new st

             
reet lamp, I t

            
urned my colla

            
r to the cold 

      
and damp,  
            
When my eyes, 

              
were stabbed, 

           
by the flash o

         
f a ne - on  l

            
ight, that spl

      
it the  night,

  
            
And touched th

          
e sound, of  s

     
i - lence.  
 
(Verse 3)
             
And in the nak

           
ed light I saw

              
, ten thousand

          
 people maybe 

  
more,  
           
People talking

            
 withou - out 

             
speaking, peop

            
le hearing wit

            
hou - out  lis

                   
tening,  
              
People writing

         
 songs, that v

          
oices, ne - ve

            
r share, and n

         
o - one dare, 

 
           
Disturb the so

           
und, of  sil -

               
 ence.  

(Verse 4)  
             
Fools said I, 

           
you do not kno

            
w, silence lik

          
e a cancer gro

ws,  
           
Hear my words 

            
that I mi - gh

             
t teach you, t

            
ake my arms th

            
at I mi -ght r

       
each you,  
            
But my words, 

         
like silent ra

           
indrops fell, 

         
and ech – oed,

      
 in,   
         
The  wells of 

      
 sil - ence.  

(Verse 5)  
             
And the people

           
 bowed and pra

            
yed, to the ne

          
on God they ma

  
de,  
           
And the sign f

             
lashed out it'

            
s wa – arn - i

            
ng, in the wor

             
ds that it was

            
 for – or - mi

                
ng,  
            
And the sign, 

              
said the words

           
 of the prophe

              
ts are written

          
 on the sub-wa

            
y walls, and t

         
enement halls,

  
            
And whispered 

           
in, the sound 

           
 of   sil - en

           
ce.  (slowing)